Amin Badr-El-Din

Makara Strategic Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company, which engages in affecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on June 4, 2021, and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Badr Investments is a British company that focuses on economic growth in various countries around the world. The private company is based in Harrow, UK and was founded by Amin Badr-El-Din. The company acts as a catalyst for economic development by using their strategic capabilities and entrepreneurial skills. The company's portfolio of initiatives has spanned many geographies and the entire spectrum of economic activities. Badr Investments has a focus on the energy sector, and they are currently invested in and advise a variety of companies and institutes that are pioneering in regenerative medicine. The company also works to identify technologies that can make access to water more affordable or reduce overall reliance. Additionally, they invest in companies and projects that promote sustainable agriculture practices through updated technologies and strategies in water management, packaging, and marketing.

Makara Capital Pte Ltd (Makara Capital) is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 2005 by Ali Ijaz Ahmad. The firm is headquartered in Singapore.

J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. operates as a not-for-profit genomics research organization. It conducts research on human genomic medicine, infectious diseases, plant genomics, microbial and environmental genomics, synthetic biology and biological energy, bioinformatics, and software engineering. The firm also develops a suite of software packages for sequencing/assembly, gene finding, annotation, genome analysis, microarray data analysis and normalization, protein expression quantitation, computational management, and cloud-based bioinformatics. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton O. Smith in October 2006 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Escondido Ventures LLC (Escondido Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Khaled Badr-El-Din and Justin LaPoten. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas with offices in Silicon Valley and London.

The Offset Program Bureau engages in government relation services. It operates to derive economic and commercial value from the defense procurement program. It focuses on building capabilities in the manufacturing of end user products systems and all components of these end user products which include materials, technical services, electronics, infrastructure and transportation equipment, and oil and gas systems. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.